@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hhphr.5,
 ISBN = {9780691157825},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhphr.5},
 abstract = {<p>The Second World War irrevocably altered the place of the United States in the global arena. American history, of course, had never been free of foreign entanglements despite the isolationist streak firmly embedded in the nation’s political culture. Continental expansion, the dispossession of Native peoples, the claim to the Western Hemisphere as its sphere of influence with the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, the annexation of Hawai‘i, and the conquest of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam as spoils of the Spanish-American War in 1898 were all building blocks of US empire. Yet the United States had remained relegated to the second</p>},
 bookauthor = {Ellen D. Wu},
 booktitle = {The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority},
 pages = {11-15},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {[Part I Introduction]},
 year = {2014}
}